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Great content - lousy app
You need to restore constantly which may - may not work. Landscape mode poorly supported.pcryan
Previously downloaded June 16, 2016 issue availability stopped with the July 1, 2016 issue download
I opened my app to read the June 16, 2016 (Hamilton) issue and then the Muhammad Ali (July 1, 2016) issue downloaded. The Hamilton issue has effectively been lost, because the little progress download wheel just spins.
I hope that this app is fixed soon. Rolling Stone Customer Support has responded via email to my request for help in the past. As a reminder, they cannot fix digital subscriptions purchased through iTunes. We must contact iTunes support. For once could they pre-test updates before releasing them. Hopefully they will fix this app and access to the Hamilton issue soon.Show lessHavenrock
this is bs
I subscribed to rolling stone a while ago..every time I try to read it they want more $.....booooo!!!Stompin Stu
First-Rate Content, Miserable App
It’s a shame, really. Rolling Stone was the perfect magazine to adopt the bells and whistles of a truly digital edition. You could put ears to the featured artist playlist without the hassle and legwork of seeking out each track yourself. The issue’s reviews were just a click away for your own consideration. Navigating the stories was always intuitive and enjoyable.
It was quite possibly, in this writer’s opinion, the gold standard and the point of a periodical even offering a digital-only subscription.
Enter the new and suddenly lack-luster Rolling Stone “App” — read: PDF clone-viewer. The once splendid and feature-rich digital edition now reduced to a shell of its former glory, no more usable than looking at a print copy through a window five feet away. You can still zoom, edging it arguably closer to the adjective legible. But should you decide to do so and then have the audacity to scroll through a multi-column article that way, be prepared to restart your enjoyment of that particular article by selecting it from the app’s main menu. Scrolling seems to be more difficult a task for the app to manage, crashing it often enough to reconsider your stance on the ease of digital subscriptions.
I understand that publishers have to do what they have to do. But it’s a shame, really, to have learned what it felt like and seen what it looked like to thumb through a proper digital magazine.Show lessdnlcy
Restore now works
I still lost last year purchases (2014). I like the magazine but I will not renew. $5 price increase, lost issues buggy app.
Too much of a hassle restoring every time you update the app.
Time to roll on...MMc50
Just Dumb
This is one of the goofiest apps I've seen. It won't accept an annual subscription using a valid iTunes ID and password. I called iTunes for help and they told me to call Rolling Stone. I called RS and they told me to call iTunes. I tried to force the subscription to work by buying one issue, which worked, but this is not exactly what I wanted. I got help with the Report an Issue area and they lectured me. No joke. They told me not to do it again, but did not solve the problem. I waited a couple days and tried the annual subscription again, it worked (glitch fixed?). I downloaded the current issue at the time (DiCaprio on cover), read the issue, etc. Went back today to download the latest issue and it's back to thinking that I don't exist. The prior mag is not in my library and it wants me to subscribe, again. But do iTunes or RS seem to care, nope. And how is the magazine subscription business doing these days?Show lessslindecke
RS has bet against the ipad?
Like many others, I loved the interactive ipad version that is now gone. And I, too, detest what is really a pdf version of the print edition. Put this together with the initial difficulty (now solved) of gaining access if we had bought our subscription via iTunes plus the fact that the app is now built by Zinio, and it seems clear to me that RS has determined that its future does not involve partnering with Apple. I suspect many will join me in just returning to print editions of publications that offer nothing unique for digital editions. And here, alas, will end the evolution of digital publishing of traditional magazines. Selling pdf copies is not digital publishing. It is just low-cost printing.Show lessHrothgar Aro
Keeps getting worse
I'm a print subscriber who used to enjoy digital access as well. I could download the digital version before my print copy arrived. I could flip through & enjoy the interactive features until the print version arrived, though I preferred to read the articles in the actual magazine.
After the most recent update, it took over a week to restore my previous purchases. And when I got them back, it was without any of the features I had enjoyed before. Adding to that, there's an issue that the app insists that I need to pay for even though I've been a continuous subscriber.
I no longer get notification when there's a new issue available. Tonight I went to download the latest issue,it wanted me to pay for the issue. After signing out & signing back in, I had lost my entire library. Since restore purchases still doesn't work, I'm in the process of downloading each issue one at a time. Again.
And to top it all off, when I do try to read the digital version, there's no way to save my place.Show lessRdricks
Now junk, change it back please!
We use this app on our iPad, used to be really good but recently lost all of the interactive mobile-friendly features. Font size is unbearable! Seriously? Why go backwards? Was this a cost saving measure? Well it's a horrible mobile reading experience now. Likely won't renew.winnipegrock
So much potential, so poorly done
Not an Update! A downgrade.
They've gone and made this app worse. It's just a blurry PDF now- for the same price! There is no magazine better suited for digital than rolling stone. What a disappointment. To make matters worse, they're charging the same price for this pdf as they were for the app!!! I've cancelled as of today.
I've been subscribing to Rolling Stone for at least 30 years (yeek) and I've been waiting for an iPad version since the first iPad. Can you imagine what a great Rolling Stone app could be? Deep dives into artists history and back catalogs, full streams of songs on the albums reviewed, interactive stories with live maps, interviews, anything to add insight. Instead what we get is nothing much more than a glitchy PDF. Please, Jenn, check out the Esquire app or the wired app and see what a magazine app can be. Also have the sense to include the app with the print subscription. Nobody should have to pay for the same content twice.Show lessSpeck378
